‘I miss breakfast rolls and the sense of humour but our life in the US has been as normal as anyone else’s with young kids’
After a pleasant lunch made with locally sourced ingredients at Bective Tea Rooms on the outskirts of Navan, I take a stroll aroundand catch a glimpse of some race-winning horses, and a most adorable baby alpaca named Joey. Since the tea rooms opened in April last year, they’ve already become a local institution with queues regularly snaking out the door of the recently refurbished coach house.
My bizarre blend thankfully doesn’t spoil the experience – and I’m told it could have been a lot worse . With a Listoke gin and tonic in hand, and a taste of their whiskey too, I am happy out, feeling like my Junior Cert distillation knowledge has finally been put to good use.Sunshine illuminates the passageway at the Cairn T Neolithic burial chamber at the start of the Spring Equinox at Loughcrew.
Naper was born into the Dashwoods of West Wycombe, whose family own an 18th century country house in Buckinghamshire – a frequent place for filming the likes of The Crown, X-Men, Fast and Furious, Clockwork Orange – the list goes on. Apparently her family even helped found the Hellfire Club back in the day. She came to Ireland in the 1980s after her “days as a punk rocker” to marry her first husband, who owned Loughcrew estate and gardens.